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10 month old sleeping habits

My 10 month old still wakes 2-3 times a night, needless to say it's getting exhausting. I'm not saying I expect her to sleep thru the night, but it should be better.. she's slept thru the night before so she's obviously capable.

How many naps and how long does your 10 month old take? I try to limit hers to 30 mins cause otherwise she'll nap for an hour or 2...

When my son was 10 months old, he would get up at like 4am and want to eat, so I'd get him a bottle and he'd go back to sleep until about 7. He was going to bed around 8. No matter what I tried, I could not get him to stay asleep and not wake up at 4am. Finally one night he just stopped. It was probably a month later. Now he's back on a normal schedule. I think a lot of babies do this but your LO will get out of it. I wouldn't wake her up after only having a half hour nap though.

I depends on the baby. We ALL wake up in the night, it is just that most adults don't remember waking. Ten months is a time for major milestones and growth spurts, so waking happens. Sometimes for hunger, sometimes for another reason including an abundance of brain activity trying to process the events of learning or needing to pee/poop. Also keeping a baby up so they will sleep at night makes them over tired. Babies sleep more efficiently than adults, so follow the babies unique patterns and work with it not against it. If you get a 5-8 hour stretch of sleep, that's IS sleeping through. If the baby gets a need met then goes back to sleep, that is also good!